Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-10
THE WEST.

On the Cascade mountains east of
Tacoma, w. T., a large tree fell upon sleep
ing Chinese miners recently. Nine were
killed. At Hunts camp, Il few miles east
of the Chinese camp, similar accident oc-
CURED among the white laborerS, and six
were severely injured none fatally.
TEMPORARY insanity, due to physical suf
ferings, caused John Dahlman, of Mil
waukee, Wis. to hang himself in his barn.
He was formerly one of the leading whole
sale grocers of the city, and amassed for
tune of $780, 600.
The Monarch Insurance Company, of Des
Moines, Iowa, has stopped business and the
court has appointed as receiver, Allen, its
president. The liabilities are stated by the
company to be $4,000. The assets are
placed at little larger sum.
FIRE in ST. Ignace, Mich, the other night
destroyed two hotels, two saloons and two
general stores, causing a loss of $50, 600.
BENJAMIN j. CHAMBERLIN, son of the su-
perintendent of the Rock Island railroad,
and a cashier of Chicago cattle firm, has
been found to be between s., 600 and IS, 600
short in his accounts.
AN unknown assassin attempted to kill
Judge j. w. Fitzgerald at Cincinnati on the
night of the 1st by firing a revolver at him.
The bullet passed through the Judges
coat.
THE Iong-contested struggle for United
States Senatorship of Indiana ended in the
election Of Judge Turpie, Democrat, the
vote standing: Turpie, 70; Harrison, "A.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR have boycotted Ar
mour & Co IS meats.
THE cattle of Northern and Western
Wyoming are suffering from the effects of
bad weather for the past month.
THE report that Orth Stein had killed q
telegraph operator named Howard Stone,
at Prices Station, in Utah, proved to be in
correct. The murderer's name Is Steen. a
youth of only nineteen years. Stone, the
murdered man, formerly resided in Wood
son County, Kan.
THE entire business portion of Minooka,
Ill, was burned the other night. All the
stores on Main street, fourteen in number
were destroyed. None of their contents
was saved. The loss was S30, 900; insurance,
$4,000. How the fire originated was not
known.
LATE intelligence from st. Johns, Ariz,
stated that John and Henry Brown and
Red Murphy, the remainder of the gang
OF train wreckers, had been captured and
lodged in Jail.
THERE were great fears of flood at Gin
cinnati on the night of the Sd. The river
was rising two inches an hour.
TwENTY-FoUR indictments have been
found by the grand jury at St. Louis against
as many persons, charged with committing
frauds at the election IN that city last fall.
THE SOUTH.
A NEW YORK syndicate has purchased
the entire town Of Admission, Ala, which
contains about 1000 inhabitants, together
with mineral lands and iron furnaces. The
town and the land cover 1850 acres and
cost S3,OOO,OOO and the furnaces and lands
cost S3.0O0, 900 making total investment of
81, 100000.
CONSTABLE SMITH and his deputy were
shot down and killed recently by two
desperadoes named Sneed, brothers, in
Union township, near Little Rock, Ark
The desperadoes escaped
CONGRESSMAN REAGAN was elected SEN
ator for Texas. The final ballot stood:
Reagan, Il; Maxey, SO; scattering, 6. Sub
sequently Reagan's election was made
unanimous.
HEAVY rains have fallen in Kentucky and
Southern Ohio lately and the Ohio river is
rising slowly but surely.
THE difficulty between the Stevedorcs'
Association and the firm of Lear d Con
zales at Pensacola has been adjusted the
firm paying to the association $500 to COM
pensate the men for the loss of time. and
agreeing TO hereafter conform to the rules
and requirements of the labor organize
TONS
A DISPATCH from Carthage, Tenn. of the
Sd said that Chestnut Mound ten miles
above there had been visited by a water
spout, which carried death and destruc-
ton in its wake and alm1st ruined that SEQ
ton Of the country.